OP was taking the NYT method such as in this article about a possible vaccine: >The goal is to prevent haphazard or inequitable distribution of a treatment or

OP was taking the NYT method such as in this article about a possible vaccine: >The goal is to prevent haphazard or inequitable distribution of a treatment or vaccine when there isn’t enough to go around. Such a system has already been used in allocations of remdesivir, the first drug shown to be effective against the coronavirus. >“This is all very new,” said Dr. Douglas White, an ethicist and vice chairman of the department of critical medicine at the University of Pittsburgh, which began using a weighted lottery last month to distribute remdesivir. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/23/health/coronavirus-vaccine-allocation.html https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/23/health/coronavirus-vaccin... It's quite easy to see how the jump to vaccine can be made when they really meant treatment.